Capturing the Image of Conservation
Student photographer Roger Kirkpatrick ’06 [who captured the image that graced the Winter 2005 Taft Bulletin cover] now has a website for his work, which focuses primarily on sports, underwater scenes, and nature. To see his images, visit www.newhousegalleries.com/roger. Roger spent last summer diving in Costa Rica to take underwater photographs of sharks and then did an internship in aquaculture at the University of Miami. “My highest aspiration for my pictures is that they will somehow help conservation efforts for whatever I’m taking pictures of—scalloped hammerheads, for example, which are extremely endangered because they are one of the only species of sharks that school, which make them easier to catch.” j Photographer Roger Kirkpatrick ’06 captured this image of a scalloped hammerhead shark while diving off Cocos Island, Costa Rica, last August.
Rockwell Visiting Artist Photographer Mauricio Handler spoke at Morning Meeting prior to the opening reception of his Potter Gallery exhibit Carpe Diem: Timeless Moments Beneath the Waves. Handler’s work emphasizes his ongoing passion with
unspoiled destinations and their unique marine wildlife. His editorial and commercial assignments have taken him throughout most of the Caribbean from the Turks and Caicos to Cuba. In addition, his images from Fiji, the Galápagos
Islands, Cocos Island, and of great white sharks off Guadalupe have gained him international acclaim. He has a healthy obsession with sharks, whales, and dolphins. He spent the day on campus as a Rockwell Visiting Artist. Handler is the author of two books, Diving Guide to the British Virgin Islands (Lonely Planet), as well as The British Virgin Islands: A Photographic Portrait (Twinlights Publishing). He is technical field adviser to Montreal-based underwater housing manufacturer Aquatica and is a member of The American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP). To see samples of his work, visit www.handlerphoto.com. b Middlers Lachlan Tyler, Charlie Fraker, and Alex Bermingham talk with Rockwell Visiting Artist Mauricio Handler at the opening of his exhibit in the Mark Potter ’48 Gallery. Kacey Klonsky ’07 Taft Bulletin Winter 2006
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